His plan would do more to push fragile families into poverty than promote the type of prosperity that it rhetorically claims. The Wonk Room has assembled this chart showing where Ryan’s rhetoric doesn’t match his budget’s reality:

The plan would “consolidate” job-training programs, code for cutting job training opportunities, as was illustrated in House Republicans’ fiscal 2011 proposal to eliminate funding for Workforce Investment Act (WIA) services for program year 2011.

“Repairing a Broken Medicaid System”The plan block grants the program, which will result in reduced services for the most vulnerable families as capped federal resources would not respond to meet growing health care demands in states during economic downturns.”Saving Medicare”The plan creates a new voucher system that will dramatically increase the cost of health care services for seniors.”State Flexibility to Develop Programs”The plan would simply shift more federal responsibility to economically challenged states. For states with high rates of poverty and deficits, this plan would limit their ability to leverage federal resources to provide necessary services to assist people in need.

Ryan’s plan will not lead to prosperity. The plan would further expand the gap between wealthy Americans and those trying to get a foothold on the middle class. At a time when our country should be focusing on investments for jobs in new innovative industries, strengthening our health care system, and rebuilding our infrastructure, the plan attacks all of these progressive strategies by scaling back access to higher education, workforce training, and demolishing the nation’s health care safety net.